The Hot List: March 2014

How well be spending our weekends, megabytes, and pocket change this month

How we'll be spending our weekends, megabytes, and pocket change this month.

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Arcade Fire Gets Fancy (Dress)

You may have already heard about the rumpus Arcade Fire caused by requesting that audiences members wear "formal attire or costume" to show nights during the band's upcoming Reflektor tour, kicking off March 6 in Louisville, KY. Why? Not sure. Personally, this princess is all in favor of the ball and probably gearing up in these.

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Courtesy Galerie Thomas

Art Fair City

Art is in the air this month, at least in New York City, where it seems fairs are infiltrating just about every neighborhood. Our top picks? Wander through the three sprawling floors of the Whitney Biennial, the last in the Breuer Building before the museum makes a new home in the Meatpacking District; then head downtown yourself to check out the Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94 for the best spread of international contemporary and modern art.
What you're looking at right now is Tom Wesselman's Kiki, which you can see in person at the Armory Show.

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Courtesy the artist and the New York Historical Society

Bill Cunningham at The New York Historical Society

Opening at the New York Historical Society March 14, the legendary fashion photographer's series, Facades, highlights the temporal power embedded in both fashion and architecture. Posing models--Editta Sherman, his foremost muse, makes several appearances--in period costume in front of historical city landmarks, Cunningham captures New York in what seems like a flipbook through time. "While the dates of the fashions and facades in the photographs chronicle the eighteenth century through the late twentieth, the years when Cunningham took the photographs, from 1968-1976, are equally significant," Valerie Paley, curator of the exhibition, told BAZAAR. "He saw the beauty of the city, and the importance of its past, during its nadir."

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Courtesy Soft Skull Press

Box Girl

What is it like to be a piece of art? Lilibet Snellings gives us a glimpse in her memoir about that time she spent one day every week in a glass box in the West Hollywood Standard Hotel as part of a live exhibit. Box Girl: My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation is out March 18 with Soft Skull Press.

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Courtesy Kevin Tachman

Cabaret

There's new incentive to come see the cabaret. In its latest incarnation, put on by the Roundabout Theatre Company, the timeless musical is directed by Sam Mendes and stars Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles, while Alan Cumming reprises his role as our emcee. "Playing the same part three times over the years is bordering on an obsession!" Cumming told BAZAAR. "But what excites me is that the character doesn't really have a story of his own, so you get the chance to make up a narrative for him depending on where you are in your life, and also as a reaction to the circumstances of what is happening in the world around." Previews begin this month.

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Courtesy Alex Fedorov

Get Classical At India House

We flocked to Get Classical's cabaret-style piano salon at the Gramercy Park Hotel last year, and we're sure to return on March 25, when the series gets a new look, a new venue, and a new team of sponsors. A dose of Old World for new ears, this time around the event sets up shop in New York's India House, featuring pianists Vassily Primakov, Natalia Lavrova, and David Aladashvili, hot of his debut album, Opus 13. Buy tickets here.

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Courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Grand Budapest Hotel

We're generally of the opinion that anything Wes Anderson touches turns to gold. But we're okay with the lavish reds, purples, and pastels that fill his Grand Budapest Hotel too. From the set design to the period costumes that adorn Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, and Saoirse Ronan, the film is, as it claims to be, visually grand. In theaters March 7, it follows a tenured concierge and his bellboy sidekick as they watch the world change drastically between two World Wars from the vantage of an extravagant, European hotel.

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Courtesy The Robert Heinecken Trust, Chicago

Robert Heinecken at MOMA

It's hard to classify Robert Heinecken's work, and that's exactly what we like about him. Though not usually a photographer himself, he's made a significant mark on the craft by thinking outside of the mirror box--and looking to collage, sculpture, video, and pornography, all of which he incorporates into his art. Catch MoMA's survey of his oeuvre, Object Matter, opening March 15.

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The Veronica Mars Movie

A lot time ago, we used to be friends. And after seven years of lamentations and an epic Kickstarter campaign, Kristen Bell's sassy-wonderful kid detective is picking up her magnifying glass once again. Read our interview with Bell about playing with puppets, building a new VM empire, breastfeeding on set. The film, brought to life by almost the entire original "Veronica Mars" cast, hits theaters March 14.

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